List of horror films: 1930s

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A list of horror films released in the 1930s.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
1930
The Bat Whispers	Roland West	Spencer Charters, Chester Morris, Una Merkel		[1]
1931
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Rouben Mamoulian	Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart		[2]
Dracula	Tod Browning	Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan		[2]
Dracula	George Melford	Carlos Villarias, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton		[3]
Frankenstein	James Whale	Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Mae Clarke		[2]
1932
Dr. X	Michael Curtiz	Lionel Atwill, Lee Tracy, Fay Wray		[2]
Freaks	Tod Browning	Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams		[2]
Kongo	William J. Cowen	Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel
The Monster Walks	Frank Strayer	Vera Reynolds, Sheldon Lewis		[2]
The Mummy	Karl Freund	Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners		[2]
Murders in the Rue Morgue	Robert Florey	Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi		[2]
The Old Dark House	James Whale	Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart, Lillian Bond		[2]
Unheimliche Geschichten	Richard Oswald	Paul Wegener, Mary Parker
Vampyr	Carl Theodor Dreyer	Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Jan Hieronimko		[4]
White Zombie	Victor Halperin,	Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn		[2]
1933
The Ghoul	T. Hayes Hunter	Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernst Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Bushell		[2]
The Invisible Man	James Whale	Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers, William Harrigan
Island of Lost Souls	Erle C. Kenton	Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
The Monkey's Paw	Wesley Ruggles, Ernest B. Schoedsack	Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Bramwell Fletcher		[2][5]
Murders in the Zoo	Edward Sutherland	Charlie Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick, Randolph Scott		[2]
Mystery of the Wax Museum	Michael Curtiz	Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh		[2]
Supernatural	Victor Halperin	Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne		[2]
The Vampire Bat	Frank Strayer	Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne		[2]
1934
The Black Cat	Edgar G. Ulmer	Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Jacqueline Wells		[2]
Black Moon	Roy William Neill	Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Dorothy Burgess		[2]
Chloe, Love is Calling You	Marshall Neilan	Olive Borden, Georgette Harvey, Reed Howes
Maniac	Dwain Esper	Bill Woods, Thea Ramsey, Thea Ramsey		[2]
The Tell-Tale Heart	Brian Desmond Hurst	Norman Dryden, John Kelt, Yolande Terrell
1935
The Black Room	Roy William Neill	Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Marian Marsh, Marian Marsh		[2]
Bride of Frankenstein	James Whale	Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Ernst Thesiger, Dwight Frye		[2]
Condemned to Live	Frank Strayer	Ralph Morgan, Maxine Doyle, Russell Gleason		[2]
The Crime of Dr. Crespi	John H. Auer	Erich Von Stroheim, Dwight Frye, Paul Guilfoyle		[2]
Mad Love	Karl Freund	Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden		[2]
Mark of the Vampire	Tod Browning	Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi		[2]
The Raven	Lew Landers, Louis Friedlander	Boris Karloff, Boris Karloff, Irene Ware		[2]
Werewolf of London	Stuart Walker	Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson		[2]
1936
The Devil-Doll	Tod Browning	Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan
Dracula's Daughter	Lambert Hillyer	Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden		[2]
The Invisible Ray	Lambert Hillyer	Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Walter Kingsford		[2]
The Man Who Changed His Mind	Robert Stevenson	Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier		[2]
Revolt of the Zombies	Victor Halperin	Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, Robert Noland		[2]
The Walking Dead	Michael Curtiz	Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill		[2]
1937
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1938
The Spider's Web	James W. Horne, Ray Taylor	Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske, Kenne Duncan
1939
The Gorilla	Allan Dwan	The Ritz Brothers, Anita Louise, Patsy Kelly
The Man They Could Not Hang	Nick Grinde	Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor, Don Beddoe		[2]
Pocomania	Arthur Leonard	Jack Carter, Hamtree Harrington, Ida James
The Return of Dr. X	Vincent Sherman	Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Dennis Morgan, John Litel
Son of Frankenstein	Rowland V. Lee	Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson		[2]
Tower of London	Rowland V. Lee	Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price

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• American Film Institute (1993). The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States, Volume 1, Part 2. University of California Press. ISBN 0520079086. http://books.google.ca/books?id=e024jm9X7gQC. Retrieved 14 September 2009. 
• Wells, Paul (2000). The horror genre: from Beelzebub to Blair Witch. Wallflower Press. ISBN 1903364000. http://books.google.ca/books?id=uLqCRRbx1bsC. Retrieved 28 October 2009. 

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